Mandrakesoft announced today the release of the first Linux system capable of real-time computing on Itanium 2 based parallel computing platforms (Symmetric Multiprocessing and cluster computing).

AtomicPC posted a 7-page history of BeOS article and an interview with YellowTAB's Bernd Korz.

Recently NewsForge had the chance to test out Red Hat's new version of its popular Enterprise Linux product, which Red Hat is officially unveiling today. The results were somewhat disappointing, as RHEL4 offers few compelling reasons for current RHEL3 customers to upgrade. For those considering new deployments, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will be a more attractive option than its predecessor, but how will it fare against rival products from Novell, Sun Microsystems, and Mandrakesoft? Another RHEL 4.0 article can be found at LinuxPlanet.

Embedded software powerhouse Wind River's metamorphosis into an embedded Linux vendor appears to be complete. The company will announce today that first embedded Linux distribution, and that it has already delivered 1,000 "developer seats" for the Carrier Grade Linux 2.0 compliant software.

The Preview2 Release of the GoBSD distro is now available for download here . GoBSD is a BSD distro based off of DragonFlyBSD which uses pkgsrc. With this release you can build Xorg and other large packages using pkgsrc which is included on the ISO.

The latest Mac OS X Tiger build 8A378 is now available to the testers.

Microsoft Corp. recently held a secret Webcast with some of its closest partners to discuss ways in which the company might improve its Internet Explorer browser and customer confidence in the platform.

Read the Gentoo Linux review at Linuxtimes.net.

Xandros announced the version 3 release of the Open Circulation Edition of its Linux desktop operating system (OS). The new release provides a new Internet experience with Firefox web browsing, Skype Internet calling, and Thunderbird e-mailing. The Xandros Open Circulation Edition is available for download at no charge. Update: A review.

This chapter provides the ins and outs of delegation, the process by which a server impersonating a client attempts to use that client's credentials to access remote resources in Kerberos. Also, Paul Kimmel provides a no-frills demonstration of raising and handling remote server events using Microsoft's .NET Remoting, while guiding you through potential traps and errors.

IBM releases XL C/C++ ( a high-performance optimizing compiler ) to Linux developers. XL C/C++ provides high compile and execution performance, parallel programming APIs, memory management debug routines, and runtime dynamic linking.

drobe.co.uk editor Chris Williams has been out in the field to investigate the continuing role of RISC OS machines in education. Once upon a time, Acorn, with their BBCs and later RISC OS machines were very significant in British education. Today, that role is much reduced, but they hang on in certain niches. Read about Chris' findings in his article.

A recent post in Jonathan Schwartz blog says there were 151,039 SPARC and 269,856 x64/x86 downloads for Solaris 10 so far. "An early look suggests we're not going to have a problem with demand" Schwartz said.

The author of the successful "Mono : A Developer's Notebook" book, Edd Dumbill, has given an interview regarding Mono here.